A crew of set designers began work at the historic train station Wednesday, though it seems it wouldn’t take much to transform the building into a time-appropriate set for Louisa May Alcott’s 19th century novel.

The station’s wood-paneled interior remains largely unchanged since its construction in 1888.

Street parking on the stretch of Wyman Street in front of the station will be closed on Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., though a publicist would not disclose which actors will be on set for security reasons.

An MBTA spokesman said Columbia Pictures paid the state agency more than $20,000 to open the historic building and its parking spaces to Gerwig's film crew.

Dwight MacKerron, president of the Stoughton Historical Society, said the station building has sat vacant since 2007. It remains under MBTA ownership as the town continues its multi-year negotiations with the state about purchasing the building.

Filming will not affect commuter rail service to Stoughton, said the MBTA spokesman.

“Little Women” is scheduled to shoot from October through December in Boston, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Harvard, Ipswich and the Lexington-Burlington area. The film is slated to hit theaters around Christmastime in 2019.

A number of other movies were recently filmed in the area, including scenes in Easton from 2017’s “Stronger” and a scene at Easton’s Borderland State Park in the 2016 remake of “Ghostbusters.”

Staff writer Ben Berke can be reached at bberke@enterprisenews.com

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